Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Path along the disused railway embankment which runs through Cribb's Meadow | |
Location | Leicestershire |
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Grid reference | SK 899 188 |
Interest | Biological |
Area | 4.2 hectares |
Notification | 1983 |
Location map | Magic Map |
Cribb's Meadow is a 4.2-hectare (10-acre) nature reserve east of Wymondham in Leicestershire. It is owned and managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust, and is designated a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest under the name Cribb's Lodge Meadows. It is also a National Nature Reserve and a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2.
The embankment of a disused railway runs through this ridge and furrow neutral meadow on boulder clay. The diverse flora includes adder's tongue fern, pepper saxifrage, hayrattle and green-winged orchid.
There is access from Fosse Lane, and a footpath runs through the southern end.
References
- ^ "Designated Sites View: Cribb's Lodge Meadows". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
- "Map of Cribb's Lodge Meadows". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
- "Cribb's Meadow". Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
- "Designated Sites View: Cribb's Meadow". National Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
- Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 158. ISBN 0521-21403-3.
- "Cribb's Lodge Meadows citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
52°45′32″N 0°40′08″W / 52.759°N 0.669°W / 52.759; -0.669
Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust | |
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Blaby | |
Charnwood | |
Harborough | |
Hinckley and Bosworth | |
Melton | |
North West Leicestershire | |
Oadby and Wigston | |
Rutland |